Dd10 not expected in maths - help

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Dd year 5 has struggled with maths since covid. She's now not meeting expected levels.
Not sure what to do. Maths tutor? Spend the time with her myself to practice basics?

She’s 10, don’t be to concerned if she’s hitting the ‘as expected’ in other areas on her learning. She might just not be that great at maths, that’s ok.

Meet with her teacher and find out exactly what the problem is and what they advise you do about it. Ask the school what support they can offer to help her catch up.

Whether you could coach her yourself will depend on how good a teacher you are and how engaged you think your DD will be with you.

You're right to handle this now though so she can catch up before secondary school.

They aren't meant to meet as expected until the end of the school year. Our school explains this to us every time they send reports.

Is she much below?

Speak to school. Are they putting anything in place to support her. Is there anything you can do to support her?

A good tutor might help - some one that can work with her to plug gaps and also give her the confidence to keep with her peers.

Ask her if she can follow what's going on in class? Or is it going over her head sometimes. Or does she understand it at the time but needs practice - this is easily practiced at home with extra worksheets to really nail it. Is she proficient in times tables? If not get on that.

The Carol Vorderman online maths tuition is good and reasonably affordable. Kumon is also helpful for children who are struggling. I would get extra help for your dc as it’s so confidence-sapping in secondary if a child can’t keep up in maths and science, and it’s something you can address if you tackle at this age.

So she's exceeding expected in Reading and writing always has,she just struggles with maths. Have parents evening next week.
I'm a trained primary teacher but worried she won't engage with me. Want to do as much as possible before secondary

I categorically disagree with this statement, maths is all about practise. There is no such thing as people who are "just not good" at maths (barring nerodiversiry eg dyspraxia).

I would start with times tables. Does she know them all fluently? Including related division facts? If not, start with this. There are ipad games to help e.g. timestablesrockstars

Next I would go back to number bonds to ten, then linked number bonds to multiples of ten eg if 6+4=10, then 26+4=30 and calculating using a hundred square.

Little and often is best, just like with phonics when learning to read. So, ten mins timestables each morning, ten minutes mixed calculations each evening.

TTRS, Mathseeds, Mathletics, CPG workbooks or tutor.

That’s just not true. Some people have limited capabilities within our education system and how it’s facilitated.

We aren’t all born with the same potential for maths.

Also, pretty baffling that you’ve written ‘barring neurodiversity/dyspraxia’

My son has Autism and dyspraxia and is very good at maths.

I'd agree with talking to the school.

As a teacher you'd know better than me, but I would go for lots of games with some sort of numerical element - chess, ludo, whist, poker, anything really, plus giving her pocket money and helping her plan to spend it etc etc.